needs to be approved before any notices to vacate are distributed and because we anticipate that the commercial kitchen will receive the notice in november and we will present a relocation plan and a couple of months in advance of that. but the construction is under way, and the stuff will also be working on the management structure for the future artist buildings, and the buildings will in accordance with the long range property management plan to transfer with the face and in anticipation of that transfer, we are making sure that the city's department of real estate is involved in all of these conversations around the management structure and also, solicitation of the management entity and we will be keeping the commission informed about any milestones that we reach on this in this regard.

>> do we have any speaker cards? >> we have ten. >> please come to the podium in this order. >> thank you for having me. my name is lorna coal miner and for 31 years i have been part of the artist's community she shipyard and through the trade, i serve the building and painting contractors and home owners in the restoration projects and i have amasked the largest and existing collection

of of details particular to the san francisco bay areas, whether they be victor an or art deco, my shop is a treasure trove of ceilings, and moldings and capitol and brackets and more, clients find what they need from my collection, sparing them the cost of doing a custom restoration, and making it possible for those home owners who are not millionaires to do right by their historic homes. people are filled with awe and delight and gratitude at the discovery of my shop. because, and only because of the affordable rents at hunter shipyard have i been able to maintain my business and my archive of molds and keep them accessible to clients at extremely modest prices and in fact i am the last one standing. and because of market rate, commercial rents, one of the largest plaster shops in san francisco, michael casey and soeshs *f associates with

closed their doors and san francisco victor an while it retails the plaster work has devested itself of the plaster production and turned it over to me, believe me, that the plaster vocation is a lot of work for a very modest return. >> and for some years, now, i have been reassured by lenar and redevelopment and now ocii that this new building will provide for my needs, offering space and a manageable rent so that i can maintain the archive and carry on as a vital part of the community and unfortunately i have been informed by star that i am the biggest casualty of this transition. what is being offered to me is merely the opportunity to occupy a little over half of the usable space that i now have for essentially current rate value and double my rent and brushing off the affordability issues and saying that we are working on subsidies is not, i don't think

acceptable and not until anything is written in stone and i also have been said that we have been told that the subsidis that will be acquired by the extra $25,000 because of the solar panels would not hold a candle to what i need to keep the amount of space affordable, nor do i find it ethical that i have to move the low income status to maintain my privilege of being an artist at hunter point shipyard and with this being the case i will have no recourse than to leave the point and san francisco altogether or forgo the ability to house the details or to forgo the ability to house my collection of molds and patterns and confine san francisco legacy of architectal details to the dumpster as my colleagues have been obliged to do and i hope that the community will recognize the devastation to the close of this to the city of san francisco and i am not looking for a hand out and i am merely asking san francisco to stand up for its artists and insist

that if lanar wants to profit by bulldozing the buildings that house most of us that respect and maintain the city individualism, that they will obliged to provide a genuine workable solution it relocating if not, our existing buildings are fine right where they are and wouldn't they be a cherished island of character, in a sea of soulless, uni formed development which is sadly becoming the landscape of the new san francisco. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i just got a call from lorna yesterday about this manner and so i came here to support her as a painting contractor, and basically, to just say, that what she is saying is true. and okay, she is the last one that does this plaster that you see, all over the city and you

see the painted ladies, and stuff that you don't see on the inside, and there is simply no one else, that i know that we could get i would say that a third of the projects and we will call her up and she will do small pieces and big pieces and and i think that our only alternative is to go to these plastic bits from lowes or something. and so, i am pretty alarmed if this is the case that she can't stay, and you know, i hope that you guys find a way to accommodate her. i mean, you were talking about, you know, respecting the history of the place, and you

know, museum, and i think that this city is a museum, you know, the people come from all over the world and i just don't know where we can get the material, you know, to maintain it. and if she can't stay. and so, i am very concerned. and i can tell you we paint our company about 100 houses a year. there is probably 1,000 painting contractors and i don't have time to call everybody up to fill this room and say, you know, we are we are screwed if we can't get this stuff and she is very unique unique person and this is a unique business, and

>> my name is fransico and in this room, and there are two representatives of the first people and dr. jackson, and myself. and the first and foremost, on behalf of the first people we want to start the artist and not only the artist from hunter's point, but the artist from all over san francisco. and so when i was at a procidio and the dot com came to our city and tried to drive many artists and did drive many artists, i had the privilege to accommodate 600 artists at the procidio and many of them without any rent. and i could do this because i had huge warehouses where there was an interim period, where the procido trust was not formed and so i did my little

thing there to benefit the artist. and like i was talking to one of the older artists and i believe that the artists are, or they are the soul of any civilization. and so, we need to do our very best to save our artists. and having said that, i will state to you category, that they are a rogue developer and i have no respect for lanar, and the constituents of san francisco by 87 percent stated very clearly that the entire shipyard should be cleaned up and preferably to the residential standards and that has not been done n 2004, lanar with the intent removed the batteries from the equipment that were supposed to monitor asbestos dusk and adversery impacted our seniors and our

children. and in the year 2008, i was the proponent of proposition f, and then now i was the proposition of proposition g. and we spend $5,000 and that are spent more than $10 million. and in the year, 2010, lanar fast tracked all of the deliberations using the vacation period today in the year 2014, lanar is still not to be trusted and not to be trusted and never to be trusted and coming before various committees whether it be the land use or the dpw and whether it be giving the money to e scott weiner to come here and tell lies and they are not to be trusted and finally let me tell you commissioners you need to do everything possible to get each and every artist on the shipyard. thank you very much

>> hello. can you hear me? >> yes. thanks. >> my name is margarete brown and i am a shipyard artist. and i must say that the first of all, my first problem is that the name hunter's point has been removed from all of the advertising for the shipyard. i understand why they maybe have done it and i don't agree with it because hunter's point is a definition or a title, that belongs to that space, long before what has happened to the hunter's point neighborhood. and it was a place where native americans lived, and it was a

place where people that were fishries and there was a place where there were form farms and on and on and on and i i think that is really a negative and now to me. in this new building, i have been offered a space, that is 200 square foot smaller than the one that i have and twice as much. actually a little bit more than twice as much. and if i down sized so that i have the same, i can afford it, you know, pay the same amount of money, then i don't paint, i do three dimensional things and i do... and i do the huge baskets for my clients and i do the dyed shawls and sometimes i have the four projects going on in my studio as one time and i use my wheelchair. and that will be possible in a smaller space. and i don't even know how i

built out a smaller space. and yes, as lorna suggested before, there is the promise that i would have help with it. but, with that amount of money, and as they said there may be 50 artists, whose rents are going to double and how do you decide, how then even stays or goes? because, there is not enough money in that amount of money, to subsidize that many artists. i think that it is something that needs to be considered. i don't like the word affordable, because affordable is governed by can you still hear me? >> yes, we can. >> affordable is governed by the market rates and the market rates in san francisco are outrageous and they have nothing to do with reality and they have only to do with the

fact that we have another gold rush going on here. so, yes. they are those of us, my partner included who i share my studio with, who have rates or rents and you know what? the other thing is that i said to them, no, i don't have heat and i don't have water. guess what? i don't need it. but the city requires it. okay? so you have to do that in a new building. and i don't need all of those things out there where we use the benches and the trees and the trees are nice and it is okay. but what i need is an affordable space, i can do my work in. and that is what the rest of us need. and it is very important. and it is something, it is an issue that needs and it should be solved, not just by star but by the city, and by lanar. thank you. >> thank you. >> karin slater and scott. >> sorry, i apologize. >> we have to keep going.

>> you should have the artists work on the baners, too. >> thank you. >> my name is karin slater and i am a member of the star board and a chair of the real estate committee, and i have been working with oci staff and lanar for several years. and i want to start by thanking the current and former members of the redevelopment and the commissions and the staff, for really what i think is an extraordinary leap of vision, on the part of the number of people that has resulted in this new building being built and you know, most and i have been traveling around the country and i met with the people in boston and in dc, who have the group studio spaces and the boston center for the arts and the factory and when i have explained to them what is happening in san francisco, everybody knows about the increasing cost of living in san francisco, and the increasing cost of being an artist and making the art and the studio spaces and i have told them that we are going to

have this new, 87,000 square foot building, with 130 studios, and you know, at below market rates, and this cost of maintenance, and they are just blown away. and i mean, that this is an incredible thing that is happening here. and it is not perfect, there are problems. and there is no question that we are not saying that this is the end and we are thrilled and you know everything is great. but, in the big picture, of things, this is absolutely an extraordinary event. and i hope that it is the first step towards creating a really serious permanent art district in san francisco. and where we can preserve the quality of the arts like as lorna was talking about the people and there is lorna and other people in san francisco who have the skills and the trades, and who need a place to or where they can permanently settle their work. and train the next generation of crafts men and artists and i

think that we have the opportunity here starting with this new building and the community arts center and with the potential to expand the arts district out into parcel c and enter connecting the arts activities with the community and research and that is where the future lies is out there and that is where we have to get the serious thought to and a little arts district is not just a couple of buildings with some bansers and that is not the art district and that is a lively vital place where the people are making things and coming up with new and creative ideas for how the world could look and that is what the arts brings to san francisco and that is one of the things that make san francisco a great city. and so i want to applaud the vision. and hope that we can carry it forward. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, president johnson and commissioners.

and mrs., and so, and acting director, i'm scott madison. i am here to speak in support of this item and this is a piece in the puzzle of the shipyard that is coming together finally after all of these years. when i first became involved in all of this stuff in 1985 and it looked as if they were going to be kicking all of the artists and the businesses at the shipyard off of the property shltion it never occurred to me at that time that we would probably prevail, and certainly never occurred to

me that we would be seeing these replacement facilities to keep the culinary artists in my case and the fine artists in the case of the fine artists out at the shipyard. i hope that the staff will do what they can to address those particular problems. but generally speaking i think that this is a very good thing ei hope that you will support this. >> hello this is stacey carter and i am the vice president for

the shipyard of the arts and i am a professional visual artist whose has rented and maintained a studio for the past 16 years at hunters point, and being a full time artist i understand how important it is to have an affordable studio space in order to create my work. i make a living primarily from the sales of my artwork and i have no trust fund, and i have no other means of my financial support. and without the reliable consistent and long term affordable rent of my studio i would not have been able to pursue the career, the studio has been the vehicle by which means i became an artist. and without the studio, it just would not exist. and now, currently in san francisco, the rising rents, and so many very talented, you know, very long term, local, resident artists have been forced out and many friends of mine. and it is a loss, to the city. and in my opinion.

and the need to affordable work space is a critical point, if we want the artists to remain in san francisco at all and i am telling you that they are fast, and they are fast leaving. and incredibly fast. and the hunters point shipyard has help to space 300 working artists for 50 years. >> it has provided enough space for support over 300 working artists for more than 20 years. and this contribution, is... and this is a relevant contribution to the cultural richness of the city, and it is a significant contribution that we should acknowledge and continue in the future development of the hunters point shipyard. and i am thrilled, and excited although, i do regret the loss of the buildings in parcel b. and there is nothing wrong with those buildings and they are perfectly strong and i would love to keep them here, but apparently things have been

decided before, you know, i was aware of this. it is unfortunate that lorna is going to be forced to move and i totally support her business and all of the artists in parcel b, however, i have to commend the mayor's office the ocii and lanar and their willingness to work with the artist to develop the studio building that meets their needs and one that is close to what they can afford too. and we will work as best as you can and make the funds and make the transition and i think that this whole project shows that san francisco is...

>> excuse me, i am sorry. >> that is fine. >> we need to move forward and shows a commitment of the value of art as a asset to the city and i hope that we can do this. >> thank you and before the next one comes up, i am sorry if i appear to be rude, i want to keep our meeting on time and we have a number of cards and so i need them to keep to the three minutes and i am sorry, sir i think that you are next. >> i was a board member last year and i wanted to commend the oci staff for the hard work in creating the details of this plan, and this building. and it goes a long way to accommodate the artist's needs

and i don't think that it goes all the way yet and i think that you have heard from the artists and you will hear from more artists but there is more work to be done to make sure that this building is affordable. and the city arts master plan which was created in 20 years ago, stressed that there needs to be affordable space, and not just for organizations but for the individual artists, to live and to create the art in the city. and san francisco is a city of which is based around the arts and we publicize ourselves as an art city and if we do not have the affordable space for the artists in the city that will crumble and die, the arts are like a tree. we have arts organizations that you see above the ground, below grounds, the artists do a lot of the dirty work and you do not see them and if they are not there, the tree will wither and die and san francisco as a city that supports the arts will not be alive any more and so i will recommend that you do not support this motion at this time but you look toward trying

to create more affordability in this new building, so it can accommodate all of the artists in spaces which are adequate for them to be able to create the work that they need to do, and you will hear from many of the artists who are saying that they have to down size substantially that they cannot afford the space and this is a substantial hardship for this community which has as many people know, been around for 30 years and has provided space for 300 artists during this time. and i would also like to say, that for a couple of things have not really happened according to the or what should i think should be happening and one is that the noticing of the meetings were not sent out on time and i received this notice, three days before, and which is not really enough time to come to a meeting and i know that a lot of people would liked to have come but they did not give a notice on time and when i looked to find the agenda on the oci website i could not download it and to find the meeting date, out,

hard on your website and that is something that i would like you to pub size better. and one is the gap between the kitchen building and the building 101. and this ties in with supervisor weiner's concern about the traffic accidents and pedestrian safety and right now, 22 feet with no pedestrian sidewalk at that end of the building. and i know that it is being called a fire lane but it is actually a roadway and it should have the pedestrian sidewalks. and so, i hope that you will consider trying to create more affordability for this building and i look forward to being part of that effort as it goes on, thank you very much. >> frager and june, and then... >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for inviting the public to speak at this important hearing. and my name is liz hager and i am an artist and a writer living and working in san

francisco, my studio is in building, 110, which is have seen is slated for demolition and i am excited about the proposal and the prospect of a dedicated state of the art studio building in its place, in addition to making art i have been writing a blog, for the past six years and which i cover the aspects of art and the individual artists and the san francisco art scene. and exciting things are happening in the san francisco art world, which are draw people's attention to our city. and i cannot under score the importance of the new studio building, at hunters point and san francisco is the process of remaking itself to be a much denser city and i hope that will draw the diversity of the people interested in the full range of activities that are world class urban center can offer, further, the reopening of sf, with the unparalleled collection of the contemporary art will signal that san francisco is a bonified in the artwork and the place where the

people visit because of the art and the building at hunters point dedicated for use as studios and committing to finding way for the ar tiflts of all i urge to support for this project and have faith that all of the issues will work out. and thank you. >> and jim gleason. >> commissioners, my name is jim, and i am a local born and raised san francisco artist, and i have been out at the hunters point studio, for about, i think about six years and i love my studio. as it is and i am one of the artists that are going to be moved from my studio to it is a

beautiful studio, and i am just telling you one thing this is beautiful and i love the proposal and i like what lanar did and they took and showed us you know and, they kind of held our hands through the process. and explained what we were going to get, and i really thought that the architects did a terrific job and i think that the star board, really handled the situation well, and there are issues with anything and i really support this program and i really think that this building will be a great addition to san francisco and thank you very much. >> jackson? >> jackson and i have heard so

much here and i would like to comment and i want to say it to you the ones that are talking about affordability, and i have that question of affordability since the 70s. and who put that mia together was not these people right here. what you need to do and i have requested the board of supervisors to call for a hearing on the mia. and because those persons who they are saying in order to get the buildings and how much they are supposed to be making i don't get $12,000 a year. that leaves me out. and the things of it is i only know one person in here got known for years and scott madison is back in the day and we have worked over the years together and we as a community, of san francisco has to come together to demand, that the city looks out for those of us you, and all of us and you know, dealing with affordability and in order to stay in san francisco. if you don't, you are out. and that fact and